Groups, Ordering, Stacking Order and 3D on the Z-Axis - OpenToonz Tutorial

This video shows how you can setup and animate your drawings in 3D space, to place drawings in front of, and behind, each other and to animate them moving around. The 6 methods are: The order that you draw your lines/shapes Drawing groups Setting the stacking order for vertices in a plastic mesh Placing the column’s order Setting or animating the stacking order for columns Using the Z-axis (3D) Downloadable crib sheet showing the order: The order of each one overrides the previous, but that should become obvious as you work through them. I try to speed through my explanations as quickly as I can, speeding up the drawing where necessary, so you’re not just watching me draw, but there’s a lot to get through and I try to give out as many tips as possible along the way, but if you want to skip through the video, here’s the list of topics I cover. Contents: 00:58 Drawing groups 05:25 Plastic mesh Stacking Order 09:28 Column Order 10:11 Change the stacking order of columns 12:49 Animating columns - featuring Skelly 14:56 Z axis (3D) 17:57 Sub-xsheets Subscribe for new videos every Friday: Follow me on Twitter for previews of upcoming tutorials, animations and behind the scenes: My full list of tutorials, including a beginners guide to getting started with OpenToonz: Chat with OpenToonz animators & developers in an OpenToonz-specific discord: Intro/outro audio courtesy of Voltaire: